I'M SO SORRY I'M UPDATING SO LATE! I CAN COMPLETELY EXPLAIN…NOT REALLY! I'm really just making up excuses, but I swear to you peoples, I've been really busy…so I'm updating! Hopefully this chapter will have some action for you guys! A few days ago my internet wasn't working and then I had to reformat my computer and re-download everything, SO I'M SORRY! BTW, this story doesn't exactly follow the story in the anime/manga.

Disclaimer: If I did own Bleach, I'd probably be really rich…

Reborn Love

Chapter 10 – Hell of a Party

Mizuki quickly turned around, eyes reflecting the shock and pain she felt. Suzuyo shook her head and stared again, but her eyes didn't betray her. Right before her eyes, Suzuyo saw that her best friend Mizuki was now her worst enemy. Her nightmares had come true, and before her stood, in shock, a Vastoorode. And just like her in dreams, Mizuki had her hole in her chest and her mask covering the left side of her face. And standing beside her, was Aizen with Ichimaru. "Welcome to the party!" Ichimaru grinned. Suzuyo was still so shocked that she was frozen, no attempt to move or attack. "Suzuyo!" Mizuki exclaimed and ran towards her friend. Suzuyo wanted to say stay back, but the words wouldn't come out, and she didn't want to hurt Mizuki's feelings. Before Mizuki reached her, Ichimaru jumped in front of her. "No, no, you're doing it wrong Mizuki! You take your sword out like this," He pulled his sword out. "Then you turn around…and swing!" He turned and swung his sword down, only a few millimetres from Suzuyo's face.

Mizuki swore under her breathe and shoved Ichimaru away. "Suzuyo, are you all right?" She questioned as she shook her friend quickly. Sense was knocked back into Suzuyo and she replied quietly: "Do I look all right?" She normally would've said 'yeah, I'm fine' but this was an exception. Mizuki stopped shaking and looked at her friend apologetically.

"Mizuki, stop wasting time, you should've killed your friend. You disobeyed me and will now be punished." Aizen's harsh voice sounded as he narrowed his eyes. Mizuki turned and returned his glare. "You won't get the chance to."

"I won't will I? And how do you plan to stop me?"

"She'll have my help." Suzuyo stepped up and unsheathed her sword.

"This looks like fun!" Ichimaru jumped in happily.

"Himatsu Mizugin!" Mizuki's blade was surrounded by spirals of clear water; Suzuyo felt her friend's reiatsu increase greatly. She charged towards Aizen and they were quickly in the air fighting. Water droplets would fall from the sky every now and then, making the area rain-like. Suzuyo suddenly felt small and weak, but she didn't have a choice as Ichimaru charged towards her. He was faster than her and nicked part of her uniform on the top arm. "Ikorose Shinsou!" Suzuyo didn't know what that did, but from the meaning of the words, she could guess that she had little time to dodge. Jumping as quickly as she could, she was lucky that it narrowly missed the bottom of her shoe. "Hirameki Tentouenzeru!" She shouted and then her sword became covered in lightning; the gold diamond part that hung from the hilt broke apart revealing a charge of lightning that stretched around 27cm long. She then swung downwards, creating a bolt of purple lightning towards Ichimaru. Unfortunately, she missed.

The fight was wearing Suzuyo down, but Ichimaru seemed to be fine, barely any sweat at all. Her jumps were clumsy and her dodges slow, not to mention her attacks were weak (not that they were very fast in the first place). Shinsou cut her in many different places (thought nothing too fatal) causing her to lose a lot of blood. Mizuki wasn't fairing any better. Aizen was much stronger that her, and he used his shikai a lot to get strong hits. The water on her blade was cold and poisonous, but it didn't seem to affect him.

"Unare Hai Neko!" Ashes came in time to stop Ichimaru's Shinsou. An ice dragon attacked the area that Mizuki and Aizen were fighting. Matsumoto then started to fight Ichimaru, completely ignoring Suzuyo's calls. Suzuyo took the opportunity to sit down and rest. Some fourth division squad members started towards her and were trying to get her back to the fourth division. Suzuyo screamed protests and that Mizuki needed help more. Hitsugaya at the moment was fighting Aizen as Mizuki was unconscious.

Finally giving in, the fourth division members went to help Mizuki despite her being a Vastoorode. Suzuyo self-bandaged her deeper wounds with her own uniform and prepared to fight again. A captain jumped from who knows where in front of her, holding her back (it was Soi Fon). "You're wounded and weak. So stay back." Grumbling but not moving, Suzuyo sat there and watched the battle. 'But you're wounded too!' She thought to herself. Suddenly, she felt something behind her and jumped away. She turned to meet eyes…well, goggles, with Tousen. "Hirameki Tentouenzeru!" She swung her sword horizontally for a further range, but Tousen was faster and attacked from behind. She probably would've gotten killed if it wasn't for the 8th division captain coming to stop him. Suzuyo sighed in relief and took her chance to go and see Mizuki.

By the time she reached 4th division, Suzuyo was more weary than before and it wasn't the middle of the day anymore. She burst into the room and asked for Mizuki. Even though she wasn't allowed visits, Suzuyo ignored her and went searching on her own. After losing count of how many doors she checked, she finally found Mizuki in a private room. She was mostly bandaged so she didn't seem to be in any kind of life threatening state. Mizuki was also awake.

"Mizuki?" Suzuyo asked quietly as she shut the door behind her.

"You're not mad at me are you?" She replied cautiously.

"Mad at you? Why would I be?"

"Because…well, look at me!"

"You look a little hurt, but nothing to life threatening if you ask me."

"Suzuyo…you know what I mean."

"It was worth trying…." Silence followed for a long period of time before Suzuyo decided to sit down.

"Are the rest of them dead?"

"Most of them and the Espada, I'd assume the lower Espada ones are dead though."

"Probably…. So how are you feeling?"

"Horrible…I wish I could make it up to you." She sighed and tried to sit up to look at Suzuyo.

"You don't have to; you did a lot for me already. Anyways, you pretty much saved me." Suzuyo commented and smiled.

"What do you think might happen to me?"

"Nothing, you might have to wash some dishes or clean things, but I don't think they'll kill you, if I can help it!"

"Thanks Suzuyo, you're an awesome friend."

"Nah…." The two of them were quiet after with the own thoughts, oblivious of the battles outside. Slowly, Suzuyo's lids grew heavy and she fell asleep with the battle thrown to the back of her mind.

When Suzuyo woke again, she found her head on Mizuki's bed and the haziness of the morning outside the window. Quietly, Suzuyo got up and walked outside, trying not to wake Mizuki. There were still fourth division people running about shouting directions and people were still swarming into the rooms. She recalled yesterday's event and suddenly a wave of guilt came knocking. 'I hope their all okay…' She went outside and saw Seireitei was a disaster. There were no longer any walls many parts were eaten away because of the Arrancar. Buildings, or at least what use to be of them, weren't exactly there anymore. Dust and dirt covered just about everything, which was what made the morning so hazy.

She tried to sense Hitsugaya's strong reiatsu, but it wasn't anywhere nearby, so she went exploring. After sometime, she found an exceptionally large area covered in stones, wood, rocks, and anything else similar. Around here, she was able to sense Hitsugaya's reiatsu, along with Matsumoto's and Sajin's. She dug around the rocks and found some orange hair that looked similar to Matsumoto's. 'Were they stuck under these rocks and crap for the whole night?' Suzuyo thought before she dug out most of Matsumoto's body. She had a lot of cuts and scratches, and also a bad looking cut on the right arm. But otherwise didn't seem too bad. Calling by the nearest 4th division people to help dig her out and everyone else out.

Later on, Suzuyo was told that it was pretty recent so no one was there yet, and that Ichigo and his group of friends were found there too. Aizen had supposedly retreated for the time being, as that was just to test out their strength. None of the Espada had end up dying and only 100 some Arrancar were killed, another 200 were probably injured. So while all of those guys were healing, Suzuyo went to check up on Mizuki again. When she walked in the room, she was awake. "Hi Suzuyo, did you see outside the window?" She asked casually.

"Yeah, it's super hazy. I found out that Aizen and his group retreated for the time being and that Hitsugaya/Ichigo and friends were fighting him. Their pretty injured so their just healing somewhere…." Suzuyo replied.

"Ouch, I feel kind of bad, like it was my fault that they got hurt or could've gotten killed."

"Partially my fault too!"

"Yeah, you're such a horrible person!" Mizuki joked, so Suzuyo played too. They were having so busy talking and laughing that they didn't notice the door open until a voice greeted them. "Hello Mizuki, Suzuyo, I'm glad to see you two are both rather safe." Unohana said gently. The two of them turned around, Suzuyo with a worried expression and Mizuki with a surprised one.

"If you don't mind Suzuyo, could I talk to Mizuki alone?"

"Uh, su—sure…." She bowed and took her leave. Worry flooded over her as she walked out and she wasn't sure what to do. So she tried to take her mind off and went to visit Kira in his room. He had some several cuts here and there and some really bad cuts around his arms and legs. "Kira-kun, may I come in?" She asked just above a whisper. She didn't wait for a reply and just opened the door.

"Hi Suzuyo, heh, how are you?"

"I'm okay, how about you, you look like you're in a lot of pain."

"No, I'm fine; it's just a bit of scratches."

"And a deep cut there and there."

"There not bad. Have you seen Renji, I hope he's okay. And what about Matsumoto?"

"Well, Matsumoto's got a pretty big cut on her right arm, but doesn't seem too bad otherwise, and I haven't seen Renji yet." Suzuyo talked a bit and forgot about Mizuki and Unohana as she discussed the battle with Kira.

Only when Suzuyo said bye to Kira did she remember about Mizuki. She quickly went back to her room and checked to see if Unohana was in. Luckily, she wasn't and Suzuyo went to check up on her friend. Sadly, Mizuki didn't seem to be too happy.

"So…are you feeling better?" Suzuyo asked trying to sound cheerful.

"Not really…."

"Something's bothering you."

"Nothing really…."

"All right, tell me what is it?"

"Unohana-taichou went to tell Yamamoto-taichou (A/N:I can't remember what kind of taichou he is though, sorry…)."

"And then?"

"He came in…."

"And…?"

"He said that they still have to decide."

"Well that's not something bad! Come on, cheer up, I don't like seeing you sad." She grabbed Mizuki by the arm (even through her protest of pain) and got her to stand. At the same time, the door opened to reveal Yamato. "Kikuyo Mizuki, you'll will be exiled in the next week."

How did you guys like the update?! I think it's a little longer if that makes you guys feel better. Sadly, I probably won't update this story anytime soon, but who knows?! Anyhow, I hope you people really enjoyed this chapter and I'm really sorry that I updated late, but it wasn't my fault when the internet was down!! So pray that I'll update early! Ja ne!